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NFL's first Australian game drew 100,021. The front row could barely see it.
Australia filled the MCG for its first regular-season NFL game. The same oval that created the spectacle also pushed even front-row fans far from the field.
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A huge room
The crowd topped 100,000, making it one of the largest regular-season NFL attendances ever.
A lopsided game
San Francisco beat Los Angeles 27-7 after pulling away with 24 unanswered points. The teams' very different travel schedules became part of the postgame argument.
The trade-off
A football field is narrow inside the MCG's cricket oval. Videos from the lowest rows showed why a historic crowd and poor sightlines could both be true.